Re: Unwelcome reminders of what one formerly was

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I too like cheese.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:43 PM
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I melted cheese on chicken for dinner. Then I wrapped it in a tortilla because cavemen can go shove their pre-agricultural diet up a mastodon's ass.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:45 PM
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when my bro got involuntarily committed, there was the government issued giant black man-child who was peaceful 90% of the time and then required 8 strong men to restrain him the other 10%. as is also mandated by law at public looney bins, he had a few catchphrases to wit: "I can FLY! can YOU fly?" and "I LIKE CHEESE!!" thus it has been something of a family joke for many years now, and can be used to punctuate almost any remark or silence. "I LIKE CHEESE!!"


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:56 PM
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I met an old high school friend who's in town from Minneapolis tonight for beers, and a grilled cheese truck was parked in front of the brewpub. The pulled pork grilled cheese ("The Gangsta") was excellent.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:57 PM
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The line break after \end{comment} doesn't lead to any whitespace in the output for ``hope"? Huh.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:58 PM
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Also:

Nevertheless, I have the vague idea that it was somewhat ridiculous, perhaps even shameful and disgusting.

I think this means you've now become an Ishiguro character.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 8:59 PM
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5: nope. In practice there's no difference in general, I think between:

"\end{environment}more text here"

and

"\end{environment}
more text here"

.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 9:05 PM
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I have verified 7 for the enumerate environment in xetex & pdflatex. I really don't want to grade.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 10:04 PM
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Wait! Winter of 2002. That makes much more sense.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 10:33 PM
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Narcissism of small differences, ahoy.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 10:36 PM
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In general, single line breaks don't affect LaTeX, you need a blank line to add actual white space to the compiled document.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10-13-11 11:14 PM
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well, I'm glad we got that cleared up. I'm going to go do OCD stickeribg tasks noe.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 12:23 AM
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re: 5

LaTeX generally takes the view that you, qua aesthetic idiot, are always going to cock up layout and whitespace, so best not to let you do it unless you really really desperately want to.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 12:33 AM
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The line break after \end{comment} doesn't lead to any whitespace in the output for ``hope"? Huh.

This sounds like it should be a metaphor for the afterlife.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 12:57 AM
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13: Must everyone conspire against me?


Posted by: Death Star, War Lord of the West | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 1:06 AM
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OT:

I assume I'm the only person here unfamiliar with the Bad Lip Reading videos on youtube. Or, I mean, who was unfamiliar with them until 20 minutes ago. But now I'm bitter than the rest of you didn't tell me about these things previously. This Rick Perry video cracks me up. As do all the others.

I'm only posting this in case there are any lurkers out there who, like me, hadn't seen these before.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 6:09 AM
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I LIKE PRETZELS SAVED FOR THE GAS JETS


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 6:26 AM
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16: Watching one on Michelle Bachmann was the first time I noticed that her face is nearly completely frozen. She must be botoxed to hell. I used to think she had crazy eyes, now I think she can't blink anymore.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 7:26 AM
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I'm probably the only one here that watched Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. "I Like Cheese" reminds me of it, my favorite modern animated show, although Cheese was probably my least favorite character.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 7:59 AM
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when my bro got involuntarily committed, there was the government issued giant black man-child

Hello folks. Just here to say that if I've ever read a sentence that started better than this, I don't remember it right now. Also, I would like an application to join Alameida's family. It sounds like mine, with a better sense of humor.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 9:50 AM
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19.1: Nope.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 9:51 AM
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text: I gotta be up front with you. there are draw-backs.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 7:09 PM
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are the reunion t-shirts all that bad?


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 10:44 PM
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My flatmate is actually a convert to social credit. What. The. Fuck?


Posted by: Keir | Link to this comment | 10-14-11 11:24 PM
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Huh, I hadn't heard of social credit before. Fascinating stuff. Economists these days really lack imagination.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-15-11 12:40 AM
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Yea, it ended up being the protest party in NZ, and so rattled along for a while longer here, and avoided the worst of the anti-Semitism inherent in any theory about banks and usury etc. It's also exhibit A in `engineers out of politics'.


Posted by: Keir | Link to this comment | 10-15-11 4:40 AM
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